Portugal in 1992

[Les Izmore]

Alea and I are in the process of fairly drastically paring down our possessions, as we transition to a more mobile lifestyle. One decision that we've made is to dump all of our photo albums, journals and scrapbooks, but only after we scan digital copies for ourselves. Several I'm uploading to Internet Archives so that they are accessible to friends and family. One of our better albums was of a three week bicycle trip throughout Portugal in 1992 (the first bicycle trip where we stayed in hotels and ate at restaurants for the entire trip). While we don't claim to be even good photographers, on this trip we had an SLR camera with 210mm zoom lens, so some of the photos are pretty good. We got creative by adding various ephemera that we acquired along the way, as well as adding snippets from a journal that we maintained for the trip. So while mainly being pictorial, there is a bit of a narrative to it. It would be more than two decades before we were able to take a trip this long, as trying to coordinate time off with two careers was difficult, to say the least. We're not likely to ever attempt anything like this again (the scrapbook, not the trip), but at the time we were more interested in projects like this.

The finished album was 12"x15", over 80 pages and weighed 7 pounds. I had to manually scan and stitch each page from two images - my photo editing software wouldn't stitch the images together for me.

So, for anyone that may want a closer look at Portugal, here you go:
https://archive.org/details/1992PortugalBicycleTripCOMPRESSED

 

[Les Izmore]

Thanks. Like most worthwhile projects, it was a lot of work. But it was definitely worth the effort, even if we only look back at it every several years.

We have two battery operated scanners for on the road, a sheet feed model and a half-page width scanning wand. I do a lot of genealogy, and the sheet feed model in particular saves having to carry around reams of paper records (and pay for copying costs).

You'll figure out the Cloud storage easily enough. Once you sign up for a service, it just looks a folder on your computer. We haven't yet dug into which service we'll use, but it is on our to-do list. I've used the free version of Dropbox for a few years now to store and share certain files. But we might opt for the Google Drive service, since we both have Chromebooks. On occasion we need to scrub our Chromebooks. When that happens we need to setup Dropbox again, but wouldn't need to with Google Drive. Here's a review to get you started:http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/features...storage-dropbox-google-drive-onedrive-icloud/

We're looking forward to meeting other CI and teardrop owners. We've wanted to go to the Camp Inn Camp Outt since we picked up our trailer, and had planned on attending this fall, but that won't happen - we don't want to make that big of a detour from our Southern Tier bicycle trip. Once we no longer have to snowbird it'll be easy to fit CICO in. But we'll be doing plenty of traveling between now and then, so there'll be opportunities for paths to cross.

I enjoyed your video. We're currently rethinking out galley storage since we'll be spending a lot more time on the road, and you've provided some interesting ideas.

 

[KathyBob]

Very, very well-done photo book. We'll have to look into that. We, too, are dealing with the issue of purging "stuff," mostly looking ahead to those days when our house won't work for us because of the many stairs. Also, don't want to leave the kids with the burden of getting rid of everything. Like Jenn, just starting to get familiar with the concept of the Cloud!

Thanks for sharing.